Associate Director - Pharmacovigilance; PV Systems Strategy and Implementation

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The purpose of the Associate Director PV Systems Strategy and Implementation is to develop, implement, and maintain streamlined and compliant systems that enable the PV organization’s objectives. This role will work with stakeholders to analyze workflows and business processes to identify improvement opportunities, efficiency enhancements, and increased quality of data and process. They will use their business process analysis, benchmarking, and analytic trends knowledge to influence and drive the PV technology and analytics strategy forward.

• Proactively assess and advise PV business on key upcoming/emerging trends (based on assessment of internal data/trends and external environmental changes).
• Research new technologies and work with business, corporate analytics, and IT teams in building and deploying applications/analytics models.
• Influence and drive PV technology strategy through external/internal benchmarking, business process automation needs, and analytic trends.
• Lead strategic cross‑functional projects across PV and PV Partners for automation, technology and analytics needs.
• Maintain deep technical understanding of safety process knowledge to apply technology and automation to PV processes.

• Lead analytics and automation solutions to address large cross‑functional issues for PV and associated business partners.
• Provide experience developing use cases, translate business issues into user stories and subsequent mapping into a technology solution.
• Responsible for the oversight and/or development of new and existing PV systems, tools, technologies and strategies in support of related business processes (i.e. timeline updates, project status reports, risk management, etc).
• Drive business readiness activities for technology implementations.
• Accountable for maintenance of PV systems as system owner or custodian while strategically influencing and driving the system change management process as needed.
• Partner with Quality to ensure that standard validation principles and system development methodologies are used to build and maintain PV‑based applications.
• Employ applications and development efforts with PV organization and other regional centers to maintain alignment and foster consistency as appropriate across PV.

• Provide consultation and partner with PV leadership and Quality to deliver upon regulatory and audit requests.
• Lead engagement to define, deliver, and report measures to understand the health of our systems.
• Work across PV to provide oversight to the definition and implementation of tools and applications that provide insight into operations.

• Deep knowledge of existing regulations/guidelines and trends for PV automation and technology (i.e. e2B, eDC, AI, safety mailings) to proactively motivate change to maintain compliance.
• Understand the confidential nature of company information and take vital steps to ensure its protection.
• Provide subject matter expertise for inspections and audits in relation to safety systems.
• Ensure that an appropriate confidentiality agreement has been executed before disclosing confidential company information to outside parties.
• Understand the roles of the EU Qualified Person (QP) and ensure support is provided to fulfill the QP legal responsibilities.

• Bachelor’s degree (preferred within health science or information technology)
• 2+ years of experience supporting drug development areas (e.g., Safety, Clinical, Project Management, Tech@Lilly, etc.).
• 2+ years of experience with data, reporting, and processes/systems.
• 2+ years implementing small and large…